A John Ball Production - 2009 Release Hot off the press another outstanding documentary style film production tracing the history of one of the World's greatest trout fisheries. Lake Taupo and it's main spawning tributary, the Tongariro River, are located in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. Brown and rainbow trout were successfully introduced to these waters in the 1880s and 1890s. The Angler's Paradise not only traces the history of the management and conservation of the fishery, it also tells the personal stories of some of the people involved and the passion they have for the area and for this unique fishery.